adverse fate
Example Sentences
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Thus there seemed a great career opening before Balboa at the very moment when adverse fate was gathering darkly around him.
From Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume III by Morris, Charles
She was the plaything of a relentlessly adverse fate.
From Roman Women by Brittain, Alfred
Meantime, the Greeks Sloping their shields, approach'd the walls of Troy,5 And Hector, by his adverse fate ensnared, Still stood exposed before the Scæan gate.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William
But adverse fate seemed at last to relent, and a light breeze sprung up from the southward.
From The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 by Headley, Joel Tyler
He may have been of high estate, He may have been a simple yeoman, Undaunted by an adverse fate, Brave was he as the bravest Roman.
From Memorial Day and Other Verse by Reed, Helen Leah
